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• My lovely wife and Boomer Babe, Ginger, and I have a patent on an invention called The Doorhickey®.  It is a product for opening and closing a sliding glass door with your elbow or shoulder when your hands are full of snacks and adult beverages.  When we started to look at marketing it we had to research packaging.  Everyone said "well you'll want to have a blister pack" (that is the form fitting hard plastic packages that so many things come in).  When we checked into these; we found that it would more than double the wholesale cost.  In other words, the packaging would be more expensive than making the Doorhickey®.   After much more research and development, we settled on a nice clear plastic bag with a paper insert for instructions.  This more environmentally and intelligence friendly packaging adds 18 cents to the total cost.
• This is not the only form of silly waste that our modern society approves of; we now have disposable everything.  I have a friend who buys a new printer every time his ink runs out as it is more expensive to buy a full complement of new ink cartridges than a printer.  The list  goes on and on.
• Our society has somehow reached the point where extracting oil from the ground, shipping it to a refinery, turning it into plastic, sending it to a factory to shape it appropriately, trucking it to a store, buying it and bringing it home is more desirable than just washing the spoon when we use it.
• We only have one Earth to destroy, let's find a way to leave something nice for the future inhabitants.s
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